hawleyrw Loc: Dayton, OH

I’m confident most places bias the reviews to show mostly only good reviews. They will show a few less than favorable reviews but I think they choose not to show as many unfavorable reviews they actually get for a product.

I always look at multiple locations for reviews, not just where I’m buying it from.

avman Loc: Normal IL

I am with you. I had two different Lexar cards fail on location and lost several shots because the images couldn't be recovered. Very disappointed. Strictly a SanDisk photog now.....

aubreybogle Loc: Albuquerque, NM

Let me put a good word in for us customers who no longer drive an automobile, and need a reliable and customer service oriented vendor, that's Amazon. No, I'm not an Amazon shill, and I have never received a complementary product to review. Yes, Amazon does market for other vendors, and I am sure takes a cut of the sales price. But, it clearly identifies what entity will be shipping, or supplying the product if other than Amazon. If the product is defective or otherwise unsuitable, even if not supplied by Amazon, they have a 30 day return policy with no cost shipping, or at their contract rate with UPS or FEDEX, depending on the reason for the return. Amazon's customer service policies and the wide spectrum of accessory products that it has available greatly simplifies the photograpy part of my life.

therwol Loc: USA

You can tell the reliability of a reviewer by what they write and how well they reason out their rating by describing their experience in detail. There is an analogy here in weeding out the BS in so many of the posts we read on this site.

DanielB Loc: San Diego, Ca

I do not trust all the reviews on Amazon but I do trust the known sellers. If your card is being shipped by B&H, Adorama or other and fulfilled by Amazon your pretty safe. But if the item is being sold by Jimmy Joe's Camera Barn I'd be careful. I'm pretty sure that there are unscrupulous sellers that pay people to post bad reviews on competitors items. You will not find anything on Amazon that doesn't have a few bad reviews. I look at the good and bad reviews and the percentage of both then before buying will do some off site research.

gwilliams6

Good info Bill-de, because I researched and couldn't out find who was making the XQD for Nikon or whether they were making them themselves. I just could find out that Sony was not making the Nikon cards. XQD cards are excellent, just a tad expensive, and take up more room when compared with other formats. Nikon claims it was a Z camera body size issue why they couldn't fit dual XQD cards slots in the Z-Cameras. lol. Every engineer knows, and most reviewers have stated it was most likely a lack of enough image processing power that is preventing both Z- cameras and Canon EOS R cameras from being able to simultaneously write to two cards. As well as trying to protect sales of their dual card slot DSLRs. Maybe next models. Cheers

GrandmaG Loc: Flat Rock, MI

That may be true; but, it's a hassle to have to return something. I must say, though, that I have no complaints from anything I've ever bought on Amazon, even from 3rd party sellers.

Bill_de Loc: US

When you make statements like "every engineer", I wonder how many you polled. Just like saying only Sony makes XQD cards. You seem to make statements based on lack of knowledge, as long as you can get the Sony name in, or say something negative about one of their competitors.

You have nothing to fear, your fanboy status is secure.

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Bill P

I don't entirely trust anything on the web. I think most of the info is like Cuban cigars, more counterfeit Cubans are made than real ones every year. It's the way our society is moving. I remember seeing a bumper sticker that said "Critical Thinking- America's other great deficit!" That's something we all need to learn.

gwilliams6

I am a longtime Nikon and Canon fanboy for sure (40 years) and proud of it. Sony is making XQD cards under different labels, they invented the XQD card, or did you NOT know that Bill-de, better study up some. LOL

I have shot pro Nikon and Canon SLRs and DSLRs for over forty years, maybe (but I dont know your age) even as long or longer than you. . So your label of me being a Sony fanboy I will accept with a laugh and a smile. I guess only approved Nikon fanboys are allowed around you, huh.

I let the facts speak for themselves about any gear, whoever makes it. Sony cameras arent perfect and need improvements in some areas, but for my pro work they are simply superior,, in may areas, to their competitors right now. That could all change with Panasonic's release coming up. But the recent releases from Canon and Nikon were a disappointment to me and many others who truly wished they would knock it out of the park, but they came up short in processing power and performance and in Canon's case came up short with the image sensor also. I am not a solo voice about all of this, but I guess you only hear me and not the many others echoing the same facts.

You are always here in UHH to speak your mind and passions and that is fine with me. I enjoy our banter. I intend to stay here also, speaking my mind, sharing facts, and discussing issues.
Cheers

gwilliams6

For Bill_de

https://www.nikonusa.com/en/learn-and-explore/a/products-and-innovation/what-is-xqd-and-why-should-i-use-it.html
(FROM NIKON'S OWN PAGE ABOUT XQD CARDS)
"Presently, Sony and Lexar are the only manufacturer of XQD cards. Sony's G series XQD cards offer read speeds of 400 MB/s* and write speeds of 350 MB/s* which is three times faster than their N series XQD cards. (*Based on Sony testing. Transfer speeds vary and are dependent on host devices.)"

The new Lexar (now owned and operated by Chinese https://petapixel.com/2017/09/01/lexar-acquired-chinese-flash-storage-company/) has not made or shipped any new Lexar XQD cards since they acquired Lexar in August of 2017. Others may be jumping in to fill the void left by Lexar, but that is still to be seen on store shelves. JUST THE FACTS HERE. Cheers

hawleyrw Loc: Dayton, OH

Simply buy name brand cards. The price isn't that much more.

crushr13 Loc: Sacramento, CA

On Amazon, when I want to look at reviews, I look at the total number of reviews. If there seems to be a significant number of reviews, I then see what the proportion of the favorables (5) or unfavorables (1) is. Some people say 1 because the item did not do one thing they thought it would/should like they wanted, but is perfectly fine. I find that if there are say 100 reviews, and 80% are 5, I then look at some of the reviews to see what they say specifically. You can usually tell who knows something about the item from that. But, as many say, be careful, because you never know what you get in the comments. And have a pretty good idea about what you want when you go looking beforehand, making it much simpler to see if many reviews agree with what you have determined prior to your shopping. It can be helpful, but it can also make things more difficult. Amazon can be a great place to shop, but it also can be difficult, since you don't have someone to speak to, as you might at a brick-and-mortar store. Just my opinion based on my results. Hope it helps.

ecar Loc: Oregon, USA

I too am with you on this one! I only buy SanDisk. I really like Sony products, but prefer to stay with SanDisk. It's important to match the correct card to the product too!

gwilliams6

Sandisk is the #1 brand with professional photographers overwhelmingly. Their record of reliability and quality is superb. Sony has entered this retail field after being behind the scenes of much memory card technology and advances. The fast and durable Sony cards pair nicely with my Sony cameras. Lexar was widely sold to pros also with reduced price incentives, but had intermittent quality control issues at times. Otherwise Lexar was very good. I do not know if anyone has reviewed Lexar quality now that they are made by huge Chinese flash storage company. Cheers

If I was to make one single recommendation, yes Sandisk is the best choice IMHO. I have never had a card failure with any Sandisk card or Sony card. David Oastler did have a Sony card fail on him when they first came out, but not since. I did have two card failures with Lexar cards in the past. Fortunately I was using a dual card setup in both cases and had redundancy. Cheers